I have never read this ethnic group discussed on your site. They vary greatly in their features ranging from Aryan to Mongolian Turkic looking. They tend to be extremely small. And they still eat reindeer dung as part of their diet. Most combine their shamanism with Christianity. Lutheran mixed with shamanism in Finland and other Scandinavian lands and Orthodox and shamanism in Russian territories.

I've seen many lapps, and only a small portion of thoose, like 5 out of 100 have some sort of asian feature, mostly the eyes. They looked more asian 100 years ago, atleast in the pictures i've seen from that time.
They are funny and I have nothing against them, unless they actually get a land of their own on the expense of ours.

"But when he has done that, and between times, he is the Cat that walks by himself and all places are alike to him, and if you look out at nights you can see him waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone---just the same as before."

Umm, yes, indeed, but they do have a habit of reinforcing that myth, apparently only to test southerners' gullibility

They also claim to castrate reindeer bucks with their teeth, and drink to their shamans' urine after he's eaten poisonous, hallucinogenic mushrooms.

I think anyone who buys into those stories belongs to the same category of people as the Americans who think that Finns fought off the Soviets during the Winter War with bows and arrows, and subsisted by eating Russian POW's.

They also claim to castrate reindeer bucks with their teeth, and drink to their shamans' urine after he's eaten poisonous, hallucinogenic mushrooms.

Sounds perfectly normal to me.

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Originally Posted by Eldritch

I think anyone who buys into those stories belongs to the same category of people as the Americans who think that Finns fought off the Soviets during the Winter War with bows and arrows, and subsisted by eating Russian POW's.

I have never read this ethnic group discussed on your site. They vary greatly in their features ranging from Aryan to Mongolian Turkic looking. They tend to be extremely small. And they still eat reindeer dung as part of their diet. Most combine their shamanism with Christianity. Lutheran mixed with shamanism in Finland and other Scandinavian lands and Orthodox and shamanism in Russian territories.

Have no problem with shamanism, Odinism or any other kind of paganism, or Christianity for that sake (as long as it’s not of the self-hating apologetic kind) – and as long as they’re essentially European in origin. Which the Laplanders are, as far as I know. The few Laplanders I’ve seen were blond or dark blond and had light eyes and skin and they sure weren’t any smaller than average Scandinavians. In other clothes I couldn’t have picked them out in a police line up with regular Norwegians/Swedes – but I don’t profess any special talent in the art of classification either, in fact I’m lousy at it.